Drunken Father Kills Son, Missing Videogame Blamed

[rickheg]

I would piss myself laughing if its not a violent video game, and then watch the media try to spin the story to still fit. New headline: "Houston Dad Killed Son over "Cooking Mama""

 

[DeathWyrmNexus]

The gun has little to do with it. If the gun hadn't of existed it would have been a knife. If the knife hadn't existed it would have been a fist.

Abusive people are abusive regardless of what weapons they wield.

Have you ever tried throwing a knife? Seriously, go and get a knife (anything from a fruit knife to a bread knife, it doesn't matter) now, and try to hit a coke can with the blade from a distance of more than ten foot. Now, get pissed and try it again. If it wasn't for the gun, that kid would be alive now.

All I got from that article is that video games have been blamed for poor parenting. And that this guy clearly has a great need for home defence.

A flaw with the person isn't a flaw with the idea of gun ownership. A murder is just as liable without the gun. The kid would have been chased down and beaten to death. I'm sure your next comment is about how the kid would have had a better chance. Good for you, the obvious is that a gun is more lethal than fists or a knife. However, you are purposely skipping the fact that the man was too violent to own a gun in the first place and instead using this death as a soap box.

Knock it off. It's sick. A kid died and you want to blame an object instead of the father.

 

[Romicron]

Hard for me to say anything that hasn't already been said.

This is why Canada has firearms laws that require guns and ammunition to be locked up and stored separately. It gives you extra time to think, maybe enough extra time before you realize that you want to kill someone of your own flesh and blood over something as stupid as a video game.

This crime happened because of alcohol and easy access to firearms, nothing more. The son could have done something else that pissed the father off and the crime still would have happened; more likely than not, if there was no alcohol or the firearms were locked up and the ammunition stored separately, along with the guns being locked up, this crime wouldn't have happened.

Of course, this is Texas we're talking about. God forbid ANYONE mentioning laws that restrict firearm use in ANY way.

 

[FightThePower]

The alcohol was a far greater factor I'd imagine.

 

[Kuchinawa212]

That's to bad. to the media videogames have caused another death, not people that drink to much

 

[userwhoquitthesite]

I live next door to Houston. Fuck the Chronicle. I just steal the funny pages from someone with a copy and ignore the rest. Ridiculously slanted writing, poor reporting, and general idiofuckracy.

Grr

 

[Koeryn]

He shouldn't have had a gun in the first place: Prior criminal history makes that a HUGE no-no.

Also: Way to go, hometown.

 

[VanityGirl]

Hard for me to say anything that hasn't already been said.

This is why Canada has firearms laws that require guns and ammunition to be locked up and stored separately. It gives you extra time to think, maybe enough extra time before you realize that you want to kill someone of your own flesh and blood over something as stupid as a video game.

This crime happened because of alcohol and easy access to firearms, nothing more. The son could have done something else that pissed the father off and the crime still would have happened; more likely than not, if there was no alcohol or the firearms were locked up and the ammunition stored separately, along with the guns being locked up, this crime wouldn't have happened.

Of course, this is Texas we're talking about. God forbid ANYONE mentioning laws that restrict firearm use in ANY way.

Let me quickly correct you on one thing. Even in Texas, there is such a thing as a GUN Law. A gun is actually pretty legally hard to get. I live in Alabama and my boyfriend wanted to buy a pistol, his background info (yes, they check) was solid, but he didn't have good credit and could not purchase a gun.
Now, the odds that this man owned the gun ILLEGALLY are very high. This means he may have purchased the weapon off a friend or off of someone he doesn't know.

But basically, I think alcohol is the BIGGEST player in this situation, I mean, regardless of having a firearm or not, this man would have clearly beaten his son. He has a past criminal record and like other people have said, the kid in question may have been killed anyway since the father was a violent man

 

[Arcanz]

Wow, this is just another reason people will blame videogames over the deaths of others. I agree that it's indeed bullshit. Why didn't the headlines just say, "Drunken Father kills son over argument"? The press are always looking for a scapegoat, goodness forbid we blame alcohol and a previous criminal record, let us blame video games instead.

I don't think it's unreasonable to be a bit touchy about it.

And no, it's not unreasonable to be a bit touchy about it. But remember your source, it's the Houston Chronicle, the people with a writer who thinks Left 4 Dead 2 and Call of Juarez are racist.

But they are racist, I mean. You play as humans, who kill other human or human-ish thingies with multiple backgrounds, thoughts and feelings. It's like a, you know, something racist... in a way, like. Racist?

I've lost faith in humanity so long ago, it's uncanny.

 

[Fraeir]

Oh well, in time, us gamers will inherit the world. Let the older and dying generations worry themselves into extinction. (Not counting gamer individuals of those generations : P)

 

[Amnestic]

1) Get drunk
2) Shoot son
3) ???
4) Profit Prison!

One less abusive bastard on the street, just a shame his kid had to die for that to happen.

Also, fingers crossed the game was something tame like Professor Layton, Cooking Mama or Brain Training.

 

[stabnex]

Asinine and idiotic. Asshole abusive prick pulled a gun on his family and people of course blame video games. Hell they'd blame video games if there was a video game console in the neighbors house and it had nothing to do with the killing but it was nearby so it HAD TO BE a contributing factor!

 

[coldfrog]

Heh... so like many others I was thinking, what game is it? At first I was very curious but after a moments thinking I didn't think I cared THAT much but I thought, maybe I'll read it one more time. I did and didn't see it, but now I was more curious than ever! Why on earth do I care this much, as I know it's not important. Then I realized why. THE PICTURE! Why is there a picture of SOME video game accompanying this?

So I guess what I really want to know is: What video game is this?

 

[cobrausn]

And as long as stories like this attract follow-up user comments like, "Lends some credence to video games causing violence" - not booze, not socio-economic conditions, not a rampant gun culture...

See, you had a reasonable post until about here. Despite our 'rampant gun culture' as people who don't know what they're talking about would call it, our gun crime rates our lower than many other obviously 'enlightened' places where people don't know anything about them except that they, of course, are the cause of murder.

Ghetto thug kills son. End of story. As long as Mexico keeps sending it's criminals our direction this will keep happening.

 

[Brad Shepard]

this type of crap is so stupid, so the guy was a dick and drank himself stupid, and just because he cant find a game he more then likley would have passed out on, he kills his son, whats next? some kid blames pokemon for forcing his dog into a dog fight? a bully stabs a young kid and says he learned it from Assassin's creed? Off the top of my head, most of the games that are blamed for "real world violence" have been A. Grand Theft Auto, (Even when it was the 40 feet above the world style) B. Halo 3 (There was a case in ohio where a boy killed his parents, even though it was said he had problems before this, his parents told him he couldent play halo 3 anymore, then he killed them) and C Doom (Dont ask me how graph paper art can make you go crazy, but hey, whatever) Ok, let me just say this out flat, shooting a gun in a jumble of 1s and 0s and shooting a gun in the real world is different in every sence of the word, if you cant tell the difference between the two you need help.

(PS, jack tompson is going to be all over this, the prick ><)

 

[Garzo]

Yeah, probably more to do with the fact that he was drunk and had a gun. Oh yeah, the fact that he's a total dick didn't help much either.

 

[DTWolfwood]

I'd like to point out at the Houston Chronicle has it out for gamers, not too long ago, one of their writers accused Left 4 Dead 2, Resi 5 and Call of Jueraz for being racist.
That accusation is full of fail.
So what have we learned about the Houston Chronicle?
Houston Chronicle=pure evil

I generally just think all news is evil. Other than the weather. Thats a necessary evil XD